EditAgent: Rethinking Agentic Image Editing
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabEditAgent expands the action and observation spaces of agentic image editors. It routes each editing step to general editors and specialized methods, attaches a verification record to each candidate, and generates candidates in parallel for a single listwise judging call. The authors report that off-the-shelf VLM judges outperform finetuned reward models when given these records, that experts preferred the listwise approach to sequential refinement in 78.5% of decided comparisons with at most half the judge calls, and that EditAgent improves two open-weight editors on three benchmarks and serves as a data engine for training stronger editors.
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EditAgent expands the action and observation spaces of agentic image editors. It routes each editing step to general editors and specialized methods, attaches a verification record to each candidate, and generates candidates in parallel for a single listwise judging call. The authors report that off-the-shelf VLM judges outperform finetuned reward models when given these records, that experts preferred the listwise approach to sequential refinement in 78.5% of decided comparisons with at most half the judge calls, and that EditAgent improves two open-weight editors on three benchmarks and serves as a data engine for training stronger editors.
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- A general-purpose editor yields no usable result in over 40% of cases on the authors' expert-annotated benchmark.
- With verification records, off-the-shelf VLM judges outperform finetuned reward models.
- Experts preferred listwise judging over sequential refinement in 78.5% of decided comparisons, using at most half the judge calls.
- EditAgent improves two open-weight editors on three benchmarks and can generate data for training stronger editors.
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Agentic image editors often retry with narrow tools and weak judges. Expanding both the tools and what the judge can observe may make multi-step editing more reliable and cheaper to evaluate.
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